User:Joshgailor/Speakeasy (band)

Speakeasy is a pop/metal/punk band from New York featuring Jon "Guato" Lalopa (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Josh Gailor (drums), Andrew Gailor (bass/backing vocals) and Matt Orlando (lead guitar). The band's debut full-length is recorded and currently being shopped for release.

History
Speakeasy began in 2004 as a series of demo recordings by Lalopa while he worked as a tech. Josh Gailor was in a band that Jon did work for, and Josh got to hear a number of the demos as they were being worked on. In 2008, the two got together using his demos as a starting point, and that summer wrote the material that would become their first full-length, "Endinsight".

In the spring of 2009, Andrew Gailor and Matt Orlando, at the time roommates in Los Angeles, CA, auditioned electronically to become the live lineup, and in late summer that year they moved to Brooklyn to officially join the band and begin touring preparations.

"Endinsight"
The band's first full length album was written, performed, engineered, and produced entirely by Lalopa and Josh Gailor in fall and winter of 2008. A number of Jon's original demos  were re-recorded for the album but remained relatively unchanged for the final release, including "She Says Go", "Makeshift", and "...Phony".

While a release date is pending and promotional efforts are in discussion, the band is already getting attention through the internet - the band has been in the top 200 bands on the national ReverbNation charts tracking online listeners, and in the top 500 bands for the global charts, and has already been offered touring spots, taken requests for interviews, and entertained label offers without playing an official live show.